Other names associated: 稲葉春吉 (Inaba Haruyoshi) appears to be the personal name associated with corporate name スモーヤ Sumo-ya / Sumōya Airplane sugoroku, with spaces for refueling, parachuting, and night flying.
This form of sugoroku is directed at children and extolls saving money as a patriotic duty, and as a route to happiness and protection in emergencies. This game came with a bonus prize of 安田貯蓄貯金読本 (Yasuda chochiku chokin dokuhon), a book on saving money.
This emblem book, a Catholic devotional work, was printed in Munich by Anna Bernhard Berg, the widow of Adam Berg, for publisher Raphael Sadeler. The Flemish Sadeler family played a dominant role in engraving, publishing and selling prints in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Note Anna Berg’s name in the colophon.
Zhongli Quan, of military bearing, is the fifth immortal on the embroidered screen. He is characterized by his bearded face and the feathered fan he carries. Zhongli Quan makes his appearance whenever there is a message from the heavens to be conveyed to the mortal world. He is portrayed here beside a tiger, a force of good and the defender against terrestrial chaos. Tigers also represent wealth and power; in addition, legends tell of tigers carrying heroes to the heavens.
Zhang Guolao, an elderly magician famous for his mule, which can travel great distances without rest, is the sixth immortal on the embroidered screen. After a journey, this immortal simply folds up the mule and places it in his pocket, as if it were no more than a slip of paper. He is the patron of happy marriages and numerous offspring, two goals which need the help of magic.
